Full-Time

Bloomberg seeks a tech, media and telecoms reporter in Germany

Bloomberg News invests in its journalism and its journalists. We have a culture that will support and challenge you to innovate, learn new skills and deliver news in a manner best suited to the modern reader’s interests. Working here will give you the chance to grow as a writer and as a data-driven journalist. Over time, you will be exposed to a wide range of opportunities only available at the world’s most credible financial news organization.

We are looking for a self-starting, resourceful, enterprising reporter to cover Germany’s most consequential technology and telecom companies.

This role can be based out of Berlin, Frankfurt or Munich.

We’ll trust you to:

  •   Break high-profile, market-moving news on the investments, deals and strategies of industry giants such as SAP, the largest software company outside of the US; and the chipmaking giant Infineon.
  •   Track the broader chip and software industries across Europe;
  •   Chase scoops on Germany’s dynamic startup scene, including the eyewatering valuations of AI companies such as Aleph Alpha and the headwinds of delivery companies including Delivery Hero.
  •   Pitch and execute on high-impact enterprise and investigations into these companies, their cultures and their human impact.
  •   Possess the writing, reporting and sourcing skills to deliver longer-form projects that deepen our readers’ understanding of these industries, hold them accountable, advance conversations and effect change.

You’ll need to have:

  •   A strong ability to develop deep networks of sources that will allow you to break big stories that Bloomberg readers care about.
  •   A proven record of producing high-quality, high-impact enterprise.
  •   The ability to write copy that is clear, succinct, focused and well organized.
  •   The ability to work quickly under deadline pressure and contribute to a range of platforms, including the Bloomberg Terminal, the web, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg TV and podcasts.
  •   Strong collaboration skills and an eagerness to work with other reporters in our global technology group and other colleagues across teams and platforms.
  •   A proficiency in German and English.
  •   A commitment to the idea that journalism can and should hold the powerful to account.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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